Eaves-trough hanger.



Patented October 13, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BURTO N H. GEDGE, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

EAVES-TROUGH HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,028, dated October 13, 1903.

Application filed January 22, 1903. Serial No. 140,111. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LBURTON H. Gnoon,a'eitizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and'State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves-Trough Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an eaves-trough hanger which may be readily adjusted to different sizes of eaves-troughs;

and my invention consists in the combina tion and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a cross-section of an eaves-trough supported by a hanger embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 a perspective view of the hanger.

The hanger consists of the usual attachingpiece A, formed of twisted strands of wire Ct a, which are separated above the cross-brace B to form an angle (1 One of the strands a. is bent to a horizontal position, doubled upon itself, and twisted, as shown, to form loop b, carried across the angle between strand a, and a and twisted with strand a to form the crossbrace B. The other strand a after being twisted with the end of strand of to form a portion of cross-brace B is bent to form a loop a to engage bead o of trough C and bent to encompass the trough O and pass through loop 5, thus forminga complete support and cross-brace for the trough. The portion of strands which is included by angle or is provided with a fold 12', preferably 8- shaped, as shown in Fig. 2.

In operation cross-brace Bis adjusted to the larger troughs by partially or wholly straightening the fold b and to the smallersized troughs by increasing the fold b. The encompassing Wire a is then passed around the trough and through loop I), where it is secured by being bent downwardly, as shown in Fig. l. I claim- 1. An eaves-trough hanger embodying-an attaching element, a trough-supporting elemerit, a cross-brace, a flexible angular connection between the cross-brace and the attaching element, and a flexible fold in the cross-brace, substantially as specified.

2. An eaves-trough hanger embodying an attaching element, a trough-supporting element, a cross-brace, a flexible angular connection between the cross-brace and the attaching element, and an S-shaped fold in the cross-brace, substantially as specified.

3. An eaves-trough hanger having a supporting-piece consisting of twisted wires separated above the troughto form a flexible angle, and secured to the outer portions of the cross-brace of the hanger by being twisted therewith; a flexible fold in the cross-brace within said angle; a loop at one end of the cross-brace; and a flexible wire adapted to encompass the trough and engage the loop, substantially as specified.

4:. An eaves-trough hanger having a supporting-piece consisting of twisted wires separated above the trough to form a flexible angle, and secured to the outer portions of the cross-brace of the hanger by being twisted therewith; an S -shaped fold in the crossbrace within said angle; a loop at one end of the cross-brace; and a flexible wire adapted to encompass the trough and engage the loop, substantially as specified.

BURTON H. GEDGE.

Witnesses:

BLANCHABD HORNE, Bosn DILTS. 

